| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −4h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −7h on 24 Oct |
Faro, Portugal runs on UTC+1. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Faro and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Faro lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Faro and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Faro lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Faro and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Faro lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lisbon, Dublin, Edinburgh. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Faro.
Faro (Portugal) is home to roughly 65K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:26, sunset at 19:17. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 37° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Portugal
Capital
Lisbon
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Europe/Lisbon
Coordinates
37.02°N, 7.93°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+351
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Capela dos Ossos in Faro is lined with the bones of around 1,250 monks, exhumed from an overcrowded cemetery in 1816. An inscription at the entrance translates roughly as: stop here and consider that you will reach this state too.
The clock: Faro keeps UTC+0. The Ria Formosa lagoon beside it is a barrier island system that shifts measurably from decade to decade.
Faro lies at 7.9°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 7.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 32 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:32 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 92 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:32.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 42m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 37m. The swing between them is 5h 5m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Faro the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 06:11, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:55. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Faro that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 31 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Faro, Portugal is Europe/Lisbon with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Faro has an estimated population of 65K and is located at coordinates 37.02°N, 7.93°W.
Faro gets 14h 42m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 37m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Faro falls at about 12:32 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 7.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Chapel of Bones: The Capela dos Ossos in Faro is lined with the bones of around 1,250 monks, exhumed from an overcrowded cemetery in 1816.